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Meteor Beacon Project update

With Brian Coleman, G4NNS

The first phase of this project was completed in May 2022 when the UK meteor beacon GB3MBA went on the air from the Sherwood Observatory of the Mansfield and Sutton Astronomical Society, enabling studies of meteor events over the UK using simple equipment and making possible a range of STEM projects featuring radio and astronomy.

The second phase of the project—described in the presentation—is to develop a network of receivers streaming their data via a central server for detailed study of individual meteor events. A public display of the echoes received by the network of receivers will be viewable on the internet.

Work continues on automating the capture of the echoes as received by the receivers in the network. This data will be stored for later analysis and study where they can be compared with optical observations from, for example, the UKMON camera network.

This is a cooperation between the worlds of amateur radio and astronomy. In particular with members of the Fireball Alliance which, in the UK, is led from the Natural History Museum with the aim of studying meteors and when possible recovering meteorites.

Both project phases have been supported by the RSGB Legacy Fund and beacon running costs are being met by the British Astronomical Association.

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